Re: make bootstrap fails

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Running bzr status --no-classify dired.el...FAILED (status 4)
>
> Please report it as a bug.  It might be triggered by a problematic
> installation of Bzr or something else, but Emacs's build should not fail
> just because it can't determine the VC status of a file.

The simple solution is just to disable all vc backends while building
(not like they can do anything at all except cause a slow-down), as
previously suggested:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-08/msg00461.html

However there was some opposition to the idea.